. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . DRUM CARRIED BY JOHN H. DeVOE. CO G. COMPANY M, CAPT. W. I. PARRISH, FORT ETHAN ALLEN. THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND. 267 Morning bad scarcely more than dawned before we proceededto give tbat long structure tbe cleaning of its existence, anexperience one might think it had never had before. Every-thing inside and out was drenched in scalding water, and whenthe next taps came we were ready for sl
. The Ninth New York heavy artillery. A history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches, camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the regiment . DRUM CARRIED BY JOHN H. DeVOE. CO G. COMPANY M, CAPT. W. I. PARRISH, FORT ETHAN ALLEN. THOSE WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND. 267 Morning bad scarcely more than dawned before we proceededto give tbat long structure tbe cleaning of its existence, anexperience one might think it had never had before. Every-thing inside and out was drenched in scalding water, and whenthe next taps came we were ready for sleep, and the edificecontinued sweet and clean till the 29th of the month, whenthere came a storm of wind and rain that completely wiped outthe barracks and rendered us shelterless. It was one of thosesudden cyclones for which all warm sections and seasons arenoted, only this was somewhat in excess of any one that wehad ever encountered. Possibly it was about the middle of theafternoon. A storm of rain accompanied by some wind gradu-ally increased in violence till the edifice began to creak, and ner-vous men made their exit in spite of the wet. Others, more con-fident, kept their places till the roof began to lift and the rainto beat
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